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Up on the Mountain#

Documentary | 84 min. | USA | 2022
Directed by Olivier Matthon
Produced by Olivier Matthon and Michael Reis
Cinematography and Editing by Olivier Matthon

Deep in the mountains of Montana, Idaho and Oregon a diverse group of Southeast Asian refugees, Latino immigrants, and white Americans harvests wild mushrooms for the restaurants of the world. But despite the sustainability of the harvest, these independent workers are repeatedly denied access to public forests. A gorgeous and immersive documentary, Up on the Mountain exposes inequities in natural resources policies as well as the resourcefulness of the communities who depend on them.

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Best documentaries of 2023 (Up on the Mountain), Video Librarian, 2023
  • Big Sky Centerpiece (Up on the Mountain), Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2022
  • Honorable Mention, Gaia Award (Up on the Mountain), Jean Rouch International Film Festival, 2022
  • Best Pacific Northwest Documentary (Up on the Mountain), Tacoma Film Festival, 2022

SELECTED SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS

  • Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound, Brussels, Belgium, 2025
  • Festival Mékong x Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Canada, 2024
  • Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, Port Angeles, WA, 2023
  • Trento Film Festival, Trento, Italy, 2023
  • The Festival of Ethnographic Film of Quebec, Quebec City, Canada, 2023
  • Marbleseed’s 34th Organic Farming Conference, Spring Valley, WI, 2023
  • YUY Mushroom festival, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, 2023
  • Sans Canal Fixe, Tours, France, 2023
  • Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, MT, 2022
  • Princeton Environmental Film Festival, Princeton, NJ, 2022
  • Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, France, 2022
  • Construir Cine International Labor Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2022
  • Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, WA, 2022
  • Docutah International Film Festival, St. George, UT, 2022
  • Devour! The Food Film Fest, Wolfville, Canada, 2022
  • Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2022
  • Museum of Ethnography of Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2022